flabbiness

The reason most often given for this flabbiness is the soft economy.

But I think that flabbiness can be a vice and an evil too.

And all the lines in her face, the flabbiness, the wrinkles.

They were luxurious, but of flabbiness there was not a trace.

For all the old man's apparent flabbiness, the metal rang with authority.

In fact, only someone hungry for a raw pepper could possibly take offense at their flabbiness.

Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?"

Christine looked across and for the first time a defensive flabbiness crawled across her face.

Mrs. Thatcher was the senior government head, firm in contrast to the others' flabbiness.

The difficulty lay in their very smallness and flabbiness.

"Now, Ben, there's nothing wrong with your bare body, barring a certain flabbiness.

The overall impression was a sort of roundness and flabbiness, which might be why people underestimated this man.

The whole air of flabbiness had vanished: Wilson was once again a soldier, mentally and physically alert.

There was no trace of the flabbiness of feature and expression that characterized the photograph.

There was a significant flabbiness about it.

The prisoners had that same flabbiness and coarseness.

She pulled me down upon the beginnings of her flabbiness, gasping from the pertinacious endeavor.

Finally he allowed that he detected some Mayoral flabbiness.

But some of his flabbiness was concealed by the very expensive-looking double-breasted suit he wore.

All the colour still went out of Jane in grandmother's presence but she was not thereby reduced to the old flabbiness.

Nothing wrong with that, except it encourages flabbiness of curatorial thought, diminishing what I would call the curator's art.

Third, conservative media success means intellectual flabbiness.

Note also the flabbiness of Debussy's orchestral-sounding piano music when actually orchestrated.

Another sign of intellectual flabbiness is the authors' failure to propound a guiding thesis.

Strychnine is a grand tonic, Kemp, to take the flabbiness out of a man."